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'Refugees'
"I kind of wanted there to be a political subtext to the song and it was inspired by living in London and having society seeing the influx of refugees as a kind of underclass to be looked down upon."
'Autograph'
"I don't want to be too graphic about what it's about 'cos I quite like that it's open to interpretation, but it's a little story about seeing the flipside of fame, I s'pose."
'Co-Star'
"It's quite a simple song really, the sentiment is... it's an idea of seeing your life like you're in a film."
'Imperfection'
"It started off as a completely different song this one, it started off as a real punky little thing. It was a real nasty, angry little song."
'The Ghost Of You'
"It's a song about the absence that is left when someone leaves. You can take it either way - is the ghost a memory of a lover or is it actually someone who's died?"
'Two Creatures'
"I think it's probably my favourite song on the record, I don't think it sounds like anything we've done before and I think it shows signs of lots of other things absorbed along the way."
'Lovers'
"On the long term level you have to find yourself in records that you like. You can't like a record unless you find a bit of yourself in it. I always misread songs, I never know what a song's about."
'Fallen Idol'
"I think we've made stuff our own which is always what you've got to do, as soon as you use an influence and you can read it too clearly it's pretty pointless really."
'Brave New Century'
"It's just a really angry song. A really bitter, sardonic, angry song. About what I hate about life."
'Beautiful Pain'
"I wrote this because - this is incredibly muso - I wanted to write a stretch of chords that didn't change, that don't replicate themselves all the way to the chorus. There's, like, eleven chords. That don't change."
'The Asylum'
"Where I come from you live in the shadow of a lunatic asylum called St Francis hospital and people always remind you that if you go off the rails a bit you'll end up in St Francis hospital."
'Apollo 13'
"I don't know what they come to our gigs for. If I'm going out I want to hear some... I want to have a good time. But people who come to our gigs seem to want that real moment of torture and drama."
'A Love As Strong As Death'
"I wrote this because I had nothing left to play to Brett when he was coming round one day. He just phoned up and said 'I'm on my way, I'll be ten minutes, I'm on the bus.'Glamorous, y'know?"
'Refugees'
"I kind of wanted there to be a political subtext to the song and it was inspired by living in London and having society seeing the influx of refugees as a kind of underclass to be looked down upon."
'Autograph'
"I don't want to be too graphic about what it's about 'cos I quite like that it's open to interpretation, but it's a little story about seeing the flipside of fame, I s'pose."
'Co-Star'
"It's quite a simple song really, the sentiment is... it's an idea of seeing your life like you're in a film."
'Imperfection'
"It started off as a completely different song this one, it started off as a real punky little thing. It was a real nasty, angry little song."
'The Ghost Of You'
"It's a song about the absence that is left when someone leaves. You can take it either way - is the ghost a memory of a lover or is it actually someone who's died?"
'Two Creatures'
"I think it's probably my favourite song on the record, I don't think it sounds like anything we've done before and I think it shows signs of lots of other things absorbed along the way."
'Lovers'
"On the long term level you have to find yourself in records that you like. You can't like a record unless you find a bit of yourself in it. I always misread songs, I never know what a song's about."
'Fallen Idol'
"I think we've made stuff our own which is always what you've got to do, as soon as you use an influence and you can read it too clearly it's pretty pointless really."
'Brave New Century'
"It's just a really angry song. A really bitter, sardonic, angry song. About what I hate about life."
'Beautiful Pain'
"I wrote this because - this is incredibly muso - I wanted to write a stretch of chords that didn't change, that don't replicate themselves all the way to the chorus. There's, like, eleven chords. That don't change."
'The Asylum'
"Where I come from you live in the shadow of a lunatic asylum called St Francis hospital and people always remind you that if you go off the rails a bit you'll end up in St Francis hospital."
'Apollo 13'
"I don't know what they come to our gigs for. If I'm going out I want to hear some... I want to have a good time. But people who come to our gigs seem to want that real moment of torture and drama."
'A Love As Strong As Death'
"I wrote this because I had nothing left to play to Brett when he was coming round one day. He just phoned up and said 'I'm on my way, I'll be ten minutes, I'm on the bus.'Glamorous, y'know?"
